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My husband and I make our own wine! I've told him more than once I'm saving several bottles from each batch for when I'm a resident in the nursing home. I have a lady in our LTC that gets a martini every evening if she wants it, so I don't see why I can't start saving up now for my nightly bottle of wine:)
This points to something I have though of for over a decade. We train CNAs to care for the elderly as if they are infants. We teach them I change, bathe, dress and feed. Frequently new CNAs are young moms and this is what they know.
Elderly are NOT babies and shouldn't be cared for or in this case have activities as such. These are people who have laid family and friends to rest, had careers, ran a household and GASP-reproduced. Many were wine drinking, cigarette smoking (because it's how you stayed thin), husband loving women (and wife loving men). We have this theory that activities for this generation must be censored-but must they? I've had women ask me straight out if I was going to breast feed my new baby (when I was pregnant), how the birth was etc.
I'm not saying to start darker conversations, but it goes there, roll with it within reason
CapeCodMermaid, RN
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We have a variety of activities every day. This morning was trivia which, in reality, is just a bunch of questions which are asked by the activities aide and answered by the residents.
I listened for a few minutes.....here is my favorite:
Question: what do we make from grapes?
Without any hesitation, a group of 85-97 year old women shouted out WINE !
The poor activity aide looked perplexed and said, "Um, no...it's jam.".
I'm with the women....it's WINE. No wonder their favorite new activity is Drink and Dabble!